Lu Miaw-fen, 2017, Sagehood and Familial Ethics: Confucianism in the Contexts of Religious Dialogues During the Ming-Qing Transition, 403 pages, Taipei: Linking Publishing.

This monograph revisits issues pertaining to the development of Confucianism from late Ming to early Qing, as well as their implications for late imperial Chinese intellectual history. Based on various original texts, the author argues that Confucianism underwent a process of theoretical and philosophical readjustment through continuous intellectual dialogues with other religions. Themes discussed in the book including ideas of life and death, moral practices, images of Confucian sages, Confucians’ ritual practices, ethical meanings of marriage, filial piety, and the idea about human nature. This book also discusses how Confucianism became popularized with more religious elements added, as well as the appropriateness of naming Confucianism in seventeenth-century China as an “enlightenment”